Chester College Old Building and Wall, North East and South East
CHESTER COLLEGE OLD BUILDING AND WALL, NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, CHEYNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1375742
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER COLLEGE OLD BUILDING AND WALL, NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, CHEYNEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-04-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/06878/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1375742
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER COLLEGE OLD BUILDING AND WALL, NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, CHEYNEY ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER COLLEGE OLD BUILDING AND WALL, NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, CHEYNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40188 67251
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ46NW CHEYNEY ROAD 1932-1/2/44 (North side) 10/01/72 Chester College Old Building and wall, north-east and south-east (Formerly Listed as: PARKGATE ROAD Chester College main building)
II
College of Higher Education. Founded in 1839, the earliest Church of England Diocesan College for training schoolteachers; 1841-2 by JC and G Buckler. Stone-dressed brown brick with grey slate roofs. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; the original entrance front to Parkgate Road is E-shaped, with lower wing, formerly the College's school, right. Basement has replaced casements under gauged-brick flat arches. The narrow central entrance bay projects. Stone-dressed forecourt wall returns as parapets to 15 stone steps to studded door of 3-full-height panels in ornate sandstone, weathered case. A 3-light mullioned and transomed casement in bay to each side of entrance; each end bay has a 5-light casement; shorter windows in similar order to each upper storey are altered. Stone-coped gables to central bay and end-bays. To right a recessed link-bay to former schoolroom which has gable-end to front; a full mullioned and transomed window with four rows of 4 lights; stone-coped gable with kneelers and finial; louvred bellcote under belled pyramidal roof on ridge. Both sides of the rear part of the Old Building are freely composed, with Tudor detail. The right side is built against; the left side adjoins the Chapel (qv) and has a mid C20 two-storey porch, now the entrance, facing Cheyney Road. The rear, or garden, face is expressed similarly to the front, and altered to a similar degree. The 3-gabled bays do not project; hence the composition is less vertical in composition, and more reposed. INTERIOR: one or two ground floor rooms facing Parkgate Road retain original character, but elsewhere most are altered. The stone-coped wall to the Parkgate forecourt to the Old Building is continued in coursed sandstone to the corner of Cheyney Road and south-west along Cheyney Road. Birdsmouthed stone coping; 2 pairs of square gateposts to Cheyney Road with birdsmouthed pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: SJ4018867251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469721
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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